Running Factorio on SONM

Oct 12, 2017

In this short post, I will test out SONM.

SONM is a decentralized cloud provider. In this case, cloud is just someone else’s computer literally. I read on the website that this is called “fog computing.” In essense, anyone can become a “miner” to run application in exchange for SONM tokens. The technology is enabled by Docker, Yandex Cocaine and its own network discovery module(insomnia) and a blockchain interface. There are two binaries: hub for discovery(presumably one for a computing cluster) and miner to run on each host machine, both written in Go. I’d like to think of SONM as Kubernetes on a blockchain.

To test the project at its current stage, I will deploy a Factorio docker server and judge by the ease of use for both sysadmin and end user.

Installing SONM Toolbelt

Following alpha release the tutorial step by step, I downloaded the 0.2.1 release from Github.